David Ofori-Adjei

David Ofori-Adjei (born 15 April 1949) is a Ghanaian physician, medical researcher, academic and medical journal editor. His main areas of research are clinical pharmacology, pharmacogenetics, infectious diseases such as malaria, schistosomiasis, Buruli ulcer, and HIV/AIDS and public sector pharmaceutical management. He is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Medical Journal.

Background After completing his secondary education at the Mfantsipim School, in Cape Coast, Ghana, he enrolled at the University of Ghana Medical School in 1969 and graduated in 1975 with a MBChB. He then completed his post-graduate training in Internal Medicine at Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra, and in Scotland.

Career In 1982, Ofori-Adjei joined the University of Ghana as a lecturer in medicine and therapeutics at the Department of Medicine and the Centre for Tropical Clinical Pharmacology. Ofori-Adjei has promoted the Rational Use of Drugs in Ghana and the development of a National Essential Drugs List with Therapeutic Guidelines in association with the Ministry of Health.

Ofori-Adjei is the Editor-in-Chief of the Ghana Medical Journal.

He is one of three program directors at the African Journal Partnership Program (AJPP). Sponsored by the US National Library of Medicine and the US John E. Fogarty International Center, the AJPP with the assistance of leading European and US medical journals, such as Lancet and the New England Journal of Medicine, in mentoring African medical journals to improve their publications and their access online to international audiences.